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I shall request the curé of Remoulins to allow her body to repose in his cemetery. I will now inform the authorities of what has occurred." With these words, the Marquis left the room; and Coursegol, after covering the face of the dead with reverent hands, knelt and prayed for her as well as for the orphan who had been confided to his care. The Château de Chamondrin was scarcely a century old.
A few moments later, Dolores, Cornelia and Coursegol, provided with the pass that all good patriots were obliged to carry if they were in the streets of Paris after ten o'clock at night, stole out of the wine-shop and turned their steps toward the Place Royale.
But when she had gone perhaps twenty paces, she paused and looked around as if to assure herself that no one was following her. The Marquis and Coursegol were standing at the half-open window, not daring to breathe, so great was their anxiety.
She had the same luxuriant golden hair, the same large, dark eyes, the same energy, the same sweetness of disposition and of voice. The Marquis and Coursegol, who had seen the gypsy, and who still remembered her, were often struck by the strong resemblance that seemed to make Tiepoletta live again in Dolores.
"Coursegol," said he, "you are a man and an old soldier. Death has no terrors for you; you will lose none of your calmness. Take good care of her to the last, will you not?" "That she might not be compelled to go alone was why I resolved to die with her," replied Coursegol, simply. "Dolores, give me your blessing." It was Antoinette who spoke. "Yes, my sister, I bless thee!"
Coursegol followed, and, the proprietor having taken his departure, the two men found themselves alone. "I have been contemplating the proposition I am about to make you for several months," Vauquelas then began.
They augmented their force by the addition of three or four men upon whose fidelity they could implicitly rely. Coursegol was also promised the services of several peasants.
It declared that a mistake had been made in the condemnation of Citoyenne Antoinette de Mirandol and Citoyen Coursegol, that they were altogether innocent of any crime whatever against the Republic, and ordered them to be set at liberty immediately.
Now, let us go on, my dear daughter, and show no anxiety if they question us at the gate." "Have no fear, father," replied Dolores, with a smile. Coursegol picked up his valise, and boldly approached the gate. Dolores followed him, striving to quiet the throbbings of her heart; she was more troubled in mind now than she had been during the whole of the long journey.
Then, too, he could not endure the thought of going so far from Arles while Dolores was there, alone and defenceless, and might need his protection at any moment. So Philip did not go, but together with his father and Coursegol he began to make arrangements for the defence of the château.
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